Anita McAlister Director of Youth Education Program Anita McAlister received a BMus from the University of Toronto and a MMus from the University of Western Ontario. An active freelancer in the Toronto area, Anita performs regularly with the Toronto Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Esprit Orchestra, the Mississauga Philharmonic, the Bach Consort and as Principal Trumpet of the Toronto Philharmonia. As a member of the Hannaford Street Silver Band, Anita can be heard on all of their recordings. Anita has worked with the National Ballet Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, has toured as Principal Trumpet of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Orchestra, was Principal Trumpet for the Kitchener/Waterloo run of Phantom of the Opera, and was a member of the Fanfare Trumpets and Theatre Orchestra at the Stratford Festival. Anita has taught at the Scarborough Board of Education Music Camp, Interprovincial Music Camp, the Mount Allison Summer Music Program, and is a faculty member at National Music Camp. An active adjudicator and clinician, Anita has taught for the Royal Conservatory and has worked with its Examination Department to revise the trumpet syllabus and record for the Sound Advice Program. Anita is presently on Faculty at the University of Toronto and at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Darryl Eaton
Conductor of Hannaford Youth Band

Educated at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (BMus), the University of Western Ontario (MMus) and the University of Toronto (BMusEd), Darryl began his career as principal trumpet and trumpet soloist with the Royal Canadian Air Force, first with the Central Band in Ottawa and later with the Air Transport Command Band in Toronto. He performed in a similar capacity with the Expo Band at the World's Fair in Montreal in 1967, and later toured with the National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the big bands of Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton and Canadian jazz icon Phil Nimmons.

He was a successful free lance musician in Toronto where he performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Bob Hope, Smokey Robinson, The Beach Boys, Paul Anka, The Supremes, and many others. His theatre credits include A Chorus Line, Oklahoma,South Pacific, A Little Night Music, Sound of Music, The Music Man, West Side Story, and most of the popular Broadway shows travelling.

In 1988, after a lengthy performing career, Mr. Eaton became an educator, assuming a teaching position at the Mayfield Seconday School for the Arts, in the City of Brampton. His secondary school concert bands and stage bands enjoyed a consistently high level of achievement, rarely reaching less than MusicFest Canada's Gold level standard. In 1994, Down Beat Magazine named Blues Alley, the senior stage band at Mayfield, the Best High School Stage Band in North America.

In 1999 Darryl Eaton became only the 8th conductor of the City of Brampton Concert Band, now celebrating over 120 years of continuous service to the community since their founding in 1884. Darryl also conducted the Symphonic Band at the University of Toronto through their 2005-2006 concert season and is now the new director of the Halton High Rendition Jazz Ensemble.

Anita McAlister or Darryl Eaton